Netscape navigator for FreeBSD5.1

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Thu Sep 23 16:13:37 PDT 2004


In the last episode (Sep 23), Virupaksh Honnur said:
> I have a PC installed with FreeBSD5.1 and I would like to install
> netscape on it but can't find a suitable netscape version that can
> run on FreeBSD5.1.
> 
> I downloaded communicator-v476-us.x86-unknown-freebsd.tar.gz and
> installed this version but when I execute this it gives a "exec
> format error".

That version probably needs you to install the compat22 package.  I
recommend installing mozilla instead, and use the Classic theme so it
looks just like Netscape :)
 
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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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